Notes from
building it

Three write-ups on the problems that actually came up while building the projects on this site — what broke, and what fixed it.

• Oct 18, 2026·7 min read

  One authoritative state per room, not a server that broadcasts

  Why the realtime typing race runs on a Cloudflare Durable Object instead of a Socket.IO server, and what that buys you when a client reconnects mid-race.

  • Realtime
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Durable Objects
  • WebSockets
• Oct 11, 2026·6 min read

  A browser agent needs observer nodes, not just action nodes

  What broke when a visual automation builder only had click-and-type steps, and why the fix was adding nodes that look without changing anything.

  • Agentic AI
  • Browser Automation
  • Product Design
• Oct 4, 2026·5 min read

  Structured data beats prose when the reader is a model

  An experiment in making a portfolio page legible to an AI scraper: real text in the DOM, facts instead of claims, and one source of truth for every URL.

  • SEO
  • Structured Data
  • Web Performance